Ten years ago I added a reminder to my calendar to check on how this prediction was panning out: In a decade’s time computing seems likely to take the form of AR interfaces mediated by AI, using gestures and speech for inputs and the whole world as its display. Speech input has come on, and LLMs have happened. AR...

With the release of the Pagecord API, I can scratch a small itch: publishing from iA Writer to my Pagecord blog. iA Writer isn't for everything, but it's good for focus, has nice attribution tools, and more importantly, it's the editor I've somehow stuck with. I've been curious about its ability to publish to various...

This is a test post sent to my Pagecord blog directly from iA Writer. Made possible by the Micropub spec and the Pagecord API. Details to follow another day.

To learn about how policy, science, and markets get food to the shops, I went along to last week's Brighton Cafe Sci. It featured Prof. Erik Millstone talking on the science and politics of food security.   Highlights: Good news: because bacteria in food make you ill quickly, the food industry does a good job of using...

I don't recall seeing so many white bluebells before, but it's probably normal.

I'm working on a machine learning cancer classification problem, but we have only a handful of positive cases in the data. Thankfully. But that fact does make my job harder. It causes three main problems: We may not have enough variety to be able to find the true patterns in the data. This is a fundamental blocker, and...

Over the weekend, we were back in Margate (mainly Cliftonville, actually) to sort through the family home. It was good to see it buzzing. A bit of sunshine always helps. GB Pizza was just right, and we were able to see the sun set over the sand. A couple of surprising things. First, I've never seen the tidal pool...

Alice Pellerin has opened my eyes with the lovely post: your hex editor should color-code bytes. I don't hexdump very often, but I've installed Hexyl for when I next need to:

The streaming schedule for Artemis II is out over at NASA Live, but with GMT times. I've made a copy and used +TIME(1,0,0) to get BST from the GMT times. I'll try to watch some of it: Launch on 1 April, 23:24 (maybe) Daily highlights at 8am or 9am seem reasonable. On Monday 6 April the lunar observation from 19:34...

Of course I don't understand this work simulating the cell cycle for a bacteria, but it looks incredible: (The title of my post comes from the source code for the simulation).

This is what the internet is for: UK novelty hot cross buns tested. There are two good ones at the end, but otherwise the vibe is "disgusting" with a hint of "WHY?"

There's a glorious story of the first computationally designed personal mRNA cancer vaccine for a dog. A civilian with no cancer or biology training—but with AI experience—used LLMs to plan and help design a cancer vaccine for his dog. Come on! This is wonderful. It's doubly wonderful because of his persistence and the...

The Guardian report on Biobank data being leaked onto GitHub is either no big deal or a massive screw-up, depending on your point of view. Either way, what I do is have a global gitignore file naming folders for confidential information. I put anything sensitive in there. If I want to push to Git, I have to try really,...